Aquaculture Tenders and Contracts

Aquaculture tenders cover fish and shellfish farming, hatchery operations, aquaculture equipment and gear, and environmental monitoring linked to fish farms and marine pens.

Stotles brings together aquaculture tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Scottish and Welsh marine bodies publish aquaculture work on Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, and some requirements sit inside wider marine services frameworks.

Aquaculture work must meet fish health and biosecurity rules, such as authorisation under the Aquatic Animal Health regulations, and work at sea needs the right marine licences. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Some aquaculture requirements are procured through wider marine services frameworks and research frameworks, alongside standalone contracts for equipment, gear and environmental work.

Environment agencies, marine authorities and research bodies are the common buyers of aquaculture services and research.

Read aquaculture development programmes, fisheries and marine strategies, environmental consent and monitoring requirements for fish farms, and innovation challenge calls, which name work ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Aquaculture notices carry 03313000 (Aquatic products), 03313300 (Seaweeds) and 03000000 (Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products). Equipment and monitoring work is classified under codes such as 34930000 (Marine equipment) and 90712300 (Marine conservation strategy planning).